/sɪk ||; sɪk/adj1 not well; ill 身体不适的;生病的: a sick child 生病的孩子Do you get paid for days when you're off sick (= from work)? 你请病假这几天有工资吗?You're too ill to work today -- you should phone in sick. 你病得厉害,今天不能上班,应该打个电话请病假。 ☞In British English be sick usually means ‘to bring up food from the stomach; vomit’. 注意:英国英语中be sick通常指“恶心”或“呕吐”。
2 the sick noun [pl] people who are ill 病人
3 feeling ill in your stomach so that you may bring up food through your mouth (vomit) 反胃的;恶心的: I feel sick -- I think it was that fish I ate. 我想吐,我想是吃了那尾鱼的缘故。Don't eat any more or you'll make yourself sick. 别再吃了,不然你会难受的。 ☞Look at airsick, carsick, nausea, seasick and travel-sick. 参看airsick、carsick、nausea、seasick及travel-sick。
4 sick of sb/sth feeling bored or annoyed because you have had too much of sb/sth 感到腻烦或厌倦: I'm sick of my job. 我厌倦我的工作。I'm sick of tidying up your mess! 整理你这些乱七八糟的东西真叫人讨厌!
5 sick (at/about sth) very annoyed or disgusted by sth 厌恶;厌倦: He felt sick at the sight of so much waste. 看见那么多废物,他感到厌恶。
6 (informal 非正式) mentioning disease, suffering, death, etc in a cruel or disgusting way 以残酷或讨厌的方式提及(疾病、痛苦、死亡等): He offended everyone with a sick joke about blind people. 他说了个取笑盲人的笑话,弄得人人都很反感。
be sick to bring up food from the stomach; vomit 呕吐:
It's common for women to be sick in the first months of pregnancy. 妇女怀孕的最初几个月里常常会呕吐。 make sb sick to make sb very angry 触怒或激怒某人:
Oh, stop complaining. You make me sick! 哦,别再抱怨了,你真讨厌! sick to death of sb/sth feeling tired of or annoyed by sb/sth 感到厌倦或厌烦:
I'm sick to death of his grumbling. 他一直不停唠叨,讨厌死了。